Nosferatu (1922)
June 6, 2026
Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
Tag: Black and White
Black and white is not the absence of color; it is a different instrument. This tag collects reviews of monochrome films, classic and deliberate-modern, and what shooting without color does to light, mood, and attention.
1930sVampyr (1932)
June 6, 2026
Characters appear and vanish. Vampyr earns its 8 as the strangest, dreamiest, and most genuinely uncanny vampire film ever made, a 1932 work by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer that abandons plot and logic in favor of pure nightmare.
2010sA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
June 6, 2026
Ana Lily Amirpour's black-and-white Iranian vampire Western is the genre's most striking recent debut. The chador is the film's masterstroke of design.
1990sNadja (1994)
June 6, 2026
Nadja earns its 6.5 as a singular artifact of nineties downtown independent cinema, a black-and-white art-house vampire film that filters the Dracula. Michael Almereyda made it cheaply in 1994 with Hollywood backing from David Lynch, who also appears in a…
1960sBlack Sunday (1960)
June 6, 2026
Mario Bava's debut is one of the most visually ravishing horror films ever made and launched Italian gothic. Bava had been a cinematographer, and it shows in every frame.
1940sMiracle on 34th Street (1947)
May 19, 2026
A department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. Miracle on 34th Street is George Seaton's 1947 American Christmas drama about a department store Santa who claims to be the…
1940sHoliday Inn (1942)
May 19, 2026
A singer retires to a Connecticut farm and converts it into an inn that only opens on holidays, leading to a rivalry with his former dance partner. Holiday Inn is Mark Sandrich's 1942 American musical depicting Jim Hardy, a singer…
1940sThe Shop Around the Corner (1940)
May 19, 2026
Two Budapest shop employees who can't stand each other are unknowingly falling in love through anonymous correspondence. The Shop Around the Corner is Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 American romantic comedy adapted from Miklós László's Hungarian play Parfumerie, depicting two Budapest leather-goods…
1940sThe Bishop’s Wife (1947)
May 19, 2026
An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. David Niven plays Bishop Henry Brougham.
1940sMeet John Doe (1941)
May 19, 2026
Meet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…
1940sRemember the Night (1940)
May 19, 2026
A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…
1940sChristmas in Connecticut (1945)
May 19, 2026
A magazine columnist who has fabricated her domestic Connecticut life must host a war hero and her publisher for Christmas. Christmas in Connecticut is Peter Godfrey's 1945 American romantic comedy about a magazine columnist whose readers believe she lives on…